the Editor of the "Nowma-Cima Dairy News"
Sm,—Pleaso permit me to, thank you, as a reader of your journal @uring 22 years, for your recent editorials, especially the one replying $0 effectively to your correspondent Hag, pies In these unusual times it is more than usually dificult to steer a clear impartial course in controversies arising out of a major catastrophe, but Jyou are succeeding in so doing, for Which your comospolitan subscribers should feel grateful and wish you a. peaceful and prosperous 1998 as part fof your well-deserved reward, Pram Exotisuseex.
Shanghai, Dee. 31.
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